Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

Funerary Wreath of Flowers

332 BC - 100 AD

56.20.756

Currently not on display

Information

Twig of myrtle, myrtus communis. Six loose leaves. 

Collected at Hawara by W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1889. Prepared and mounted for display in 1889 by Percy Newberry in a box titled 'Plant remains from the Cemetery of Hawara' and labelled no. 2 Twigs of myrtle (myrtus communis L.).

CONDITION NOTE 1998: Very dry and fragmenting.

Specifications

Accession number: 56.20.756
Collection type: Plant Remains
Culture: Roman Period
Date made: 332 BC - 100 AD
Collector: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Place collected: Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Hawara
Date collected: 1889
Materials: Flower
Measurements: Overall: 118 mm
Credit line: Purchased from the collections of Norwich Castle Museum
Legal status: Permanent collection
Provenance: Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, Previous owner, From Petrie, Owned from: 1889, Do…
Location: Item not currently on display
Publications: The Egyptian Collection at Norwich Castle Museum. Catalogue and Essays., Faye Ka…

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